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H. F. NILES June Y 7,V 1927.

PACKAGE Filed Sept. 8, 1925 I/WE/YTOR: 494%] pm/QL, j .H/.s Erf/ 'Patented June 7, 1927.

n. maas, or' emesso, ILLINOIS.

GKAGE.

Appcation med September 8, 1925. Serial No. 51,898.

My invention is concerned With packages, more especially with those designed to hold combustible articles such as cigarettes, and is designed to pro nce such a package to which a strip of safety matches can be readily attached so that they will always be at hand ready to light the cigarette as soon as it is withdrawn from its original package.

lit is further concerned with the combination of such a package, as above described,

with such a strip of safety matches.

To illustrate my invention, I annex hereto a sheetof drawings in which the same reference characters are used to designate idenl5 tical parts inA all the figures, of which i Fig. 1 1is a perspective view of a package embodying my invention having the strip of matches attached thereto;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the 2o package Without the strip of matches; and

Fig. 3 is a central vertical section through the form shown in Fig. 1.

In an ordinary form, as shown, the cigarettes ,are enclosed in a tinfoil package a in which they-are sealed by the government stamp b, and the tinfoil package is placed in a paper or cardboard container c which, eX- cept as hereinafter described, may be of any desired construction with the closed sides and bottom and the open top. To one of the sides or faces, l secure, preferably by gumming it thereto, the free end j of a-tonvue h formed by reducing the width of an adgjacent side of the container c, thus forming 85 a loop on that facev so that when the cover yhand to light it.

e of Va strip of matches f is turned back, the end of the cover can be Shoved'up beneaththe loop and slid alon the face until it emerges from beneath tie loop after which it is folded over as shown in Fig. l and the 40 free end placed in the customary space providcdbetween the fixed end g of the strip and the base or bottoms ot' the matches f.

With 4this arrangement, it will be obvious that the package of cigarettes having the loop /i can be sold just 1as any ordinary package, and-it ,the dealer makes a practice of furnishing a stri'p of matches with-cach package, as isv not uncommon, thepnrchaser simply opens the strip and inserts it in the manner described, then closingit, and having thereafter the combined package of cigarettes and strip of matches so that when he extracts a cigarette the matches are at What claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, sv

A package for cigarettes,having a loop formed on a face'thereof by extending a reduced portion of an adjacent side of the package across said face and securing the end of said reduced portion to said face near its adjacent edge, back of .Whichjloop the cover of a match strip may be passed to unite the cigarettelpackage and the match strip.

1n witness whereof, .I have hereunto set my hand this 2nd yday of September, 1925.

HARRY F. NILES. 

